I usually love even really dark jokes… but I can assure you, when I was in the hospital for cancer and currently bleeding out of all holes the body has (during the nadir, my thrombocytes were simply gone - and me too without receiving multiple blood donations) I would’ve not appreciated this in the slightest. Not like I would’ve had enough strength to complain, but I can see my family throwing fists in this special case. And helping me file a lawsuit.

People in such situations all eventually have a suicidal thought (incl. just rejecting any further treatment, which can be absolute horror). Hope can make the difference between you and your body pushing through or giving up. That asshole isn’t helping.

I was born in a Western German town, as a white girl.

…what

I’m a godless atheist trans ADHD migrating woman who votes left, installs systemd on your kids PCs and gives your guns proprietary abortions.

And of course they’re exploited workers in “third world” countries where poverty may be life-threatening (not talking about the US this time), so nobody can realistically fight back.

Capitalism is a bitch.

I mean, what’s the alternative aside from spinning up a MariaDB for your small local app? I can still remember the swamp of .ini files some older programs used for this or the totally overblown Windows Registry. Not a good time.

Reads LLM generated, honestly. It’s probably a troll who spends the whole day prompting some unrestricted models and losing touch with reality.

You should watch less Fox News.

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What you describe is being used by now. The permanent eye-tracking got low-level support on Snapdragon SoCs by 2023 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, “Sensing Hub”), the Honor Magic 6 phone advertised itself as able to “open apps by looking at them”; those desperate fucks really tried to sell this as a good thing to users. Though even this article eventually spilled the beans:

“Content Personalization: Adapt news feeds based on the focus and duration of your gaze.”

They want you to think this is a good thing, but it’s clearly dystopian. And already 3 years old, so by now they certainly found even more ways to make everyone miserable & manipulated.

The Google Assistant famously still listened to the microphone and uploaded data even if you tried to stop it, so I genuinely always recommend everyone to either flash your phone with GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS or iodéOS immediately or throw it away. Modern mainline phones are a health hazard.

Nobody said you shouldn’t act responsible within your abilities, just that the system won’t be repaired by individuals consuming differently in any way (Big corpos would just adapt to extract your money in a new way). Consumers can’t do jack shit about the greater economical structures at play except voting, and, well… apparently that also doesn’t do enough.

Blaming consumers and everyones habits is quite literally propaganda of oil companies.

Exactly.

Food, shelter, health, social interactions, mobility, now “intelligence” (well, a bad simulation of it). EVERYTHING has been capitalised. To believe anyone could change shit by just “consuming differently” is very much stuck in the same ideology that created this disaster.

Hard disagree. But feel free to tell me how your attempt of stopping to fund all of that goes, surely you know how to do that without joining the Amish and being on the run from your countries’ tax agency.

You can’t even realistically avoid Nestlé and all its smaller brands (way too many). Stop blame the fucking people for the mess of the different power structures we were all born in, it’s nobodies fault but those in charge of those systems. Which is not us, systemically. Nobody is “funding” this crap, everyone’s forced into it. Welcome to fucking capitalism.

Apparently (I’m not a scholar but was curious) in dire situations that require immediate action they could’ve prayed while helping out, even shortening it out as long as the short (verbal?) prayer is done in honesty and the situation absolutely demands it. Apparently it’s even outright disallowed to not safe yourself or others during life-and-death situations even if it prevents you from the mandatory prayer because preserving people’s lifes and your own tops those rules, at least that’s what I read so far. If that boat story is actually true that person probably was a dipshit who happened to break his own religion’s rules.

Also looked up fasting: There seems to be even more leeway on that. Just do it later if you can’t do it right now due to illness or similar, or pay “fidyah” (give poor people money for food). Though I’m kinda curious how it’s handled when someone is too old to fast but also poor as fuck, not a situation where you’d want to also feel guilty about this.

This reminds me why I love the NieR series so much. Ultimately throws away the concept of pre-defined “protagonist” and “antagonist” and screws over the player’s emotions with the conflict itself instead.

Ah damn, you’re empathising with someone you’re not supposed to? Everyone has understandable or even good reasons for their actions? Your “protagonist” reasons might not even the best of them?

How’s this even a novel concept in writing, I don’t get it…

Damn, that’s some massive copium on that site.

The Linux community could be studied for why people are so ignorant towards their own abilities; once they learned it many of them forget how skilled they’ve actually become and expect everyone else to also get on their level, or at least to aim for it (and those who don’t shall stay on Windows. Fuck, I despise that sentiment).

Surely it would be correct to say that many Linux distros are by now friendlier to the user than Windows (not that hard given how hostile Windows is). But for them to truly be easier they still miss at a minimum:

• More PCs with it as a pre-installed option
• A full pre-installed GUI config suite (incl. Bootloader, systemd, all of it)
• Self-healing routines. Right now more and more ship with snapshots, but a failed update can still induce bootloops that require manual intervention
• Nvidia drivers that work as reliable as AMDs for everyone (please don’t comment “but works for me”, I know some of you got lucky)

Something tells me that ISO was created to make programming easier. Time/date stuff on computers are a menace in general.

I like the notion, don’t think it’s true though. Empathy, love and tolerance is something you also have to learn, some people need more guidance with it than others and bad parenting can almost permanently fuck up people in that regard (almost; it’s always possible to learn later, just takes more work). It’s also a muscle you have to always keep healthy to not grow weak and suffer an infection like xenophobia, transphobia and such. Sometimes those infections even grow and lurk in the shadow of your best intention.

A lot of indigenous cultures have a lot of wisdom in this regard from which the arrogant “developed” societies keep refusing to learn (because it doesn’t fit either the >200 year old school systems, nor the ultra-competitive nature it teaches, nor the “nuclear family” bullshit). At least that’s my impression.

I mean, he’s right.

Is there some context for those of us who didn’t default to USA during the birthplace lottery that makes this a funny meme?

If you need wifi on BSD you’re usually boned. Or at least very slow.